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Gaslighting

by The Long Eye

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Tobias Walker Honestly not sure what to say about this album.
I just love it. It just gets inside my head, and grabs my brain. o.O Favorite track: home sweet home.
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1.
lock me up and sit me down ask me why i've been waiting around for a voice or a sound but i can't tell you took the silence between two words caged it up like a singing bird and sold the song i heard as it flew give me bread, it's cast aside but i beg for a place to hide cause i don't go outside when it's raining break the choir into thirds scatter voices until unheard but the bones of chords and words are still remaining well you dust off the bones and you break them in two
2.
big town 03:39
i'm sitting with an old friend trying to do it all again everything is in place, but it's the wrong place bring the lights down and fill up the seats the screen flickers and we'll see what we're gonna see well you see me in this big town and i see you now oh lord i ain't prepared for this you can sit down beside me if you wish long black curls are falling around your head and whiskey in jar and i'm as good as dead well you see me in this big town and i found you now well you found me in this big town and i found you and i love you now i'm sitting with a new friend, and when i speak i'm a fool with the words but it don't mean a thing i want to know you and know who i am in your arms and in your plan
3.
no i am not a carpenter i am nothing more than a lumberjack i can't create, that's not my place i only kill, destroy, erase no it's no use should i retire i'll be replaced by forest fire in time i'll try to build a home when it burns down i'm still alone oh please be aware you can touch me if you dare so put your arm around my shoulder and we'll go live out by the ocean we'll learn to swim beneath the moon one day the salt won't burn our wounds oh please be aware you can touch me if you dare you can touch me if you dare
4.
palisades 05:04
saw the sunlight slip away on the palisades i could stay here for a while i'm a little child though i put this place on trial the city shrinks with every mile and i know that very soon it will fit inside my room hear the darkened river side speaking softly while i ride and in the middle of the night i am blind to city light
5.
everything is still nothing makes a sound except my shuffling feet on the frozen ground lonely little town scene from long ago bicycles and cars buried in the snow home sweet home home sweet home the land is unashamed open so i see the shadows of the clouds in their entirety snowdrifts on the road melting in the sun the flood will reach the town drowning everyone home sweet home home sweet home so come outside with me see the robin fly he lands upon a branch and sings for you and i cherries on the ground fallen from above a canopy of green cradling this love
6.
comeback kid 03:46
time passes and nothing's changed and i'm waiting to hear what you've got to say cause i'm sure i've heard it before the words that tumble from your lips to the floor and they won't cushion your fall so long to the comeback kid so strong til you learn what you did stand up just to fall back down where you wait to be found your salvation is in your hands but another evening piles up with cigarettes and cans by morning it's lost again misplaced then stolen by your friends and they won't cushion your fall so long i've been dying to go though wrong when i keep you in tow wake up on the side of the road but you're not alone
7.
see you sitting there just waiting for me to say the word you got your new pretty haircut, got it all up in curls but i'm dressed in rags, stranded on the phone i'm trying hard to forget everything i've ever known how could i stay tonight? how could i stay tonight? lord knows i tried ain't you kind babe, ain't you warm i'm hungry for a beautiful form but i know beauty is the words trying to break free and when it's my name that escapes, it brings me to my knees how could i tell a lie? how could i tell a lie? lord knows i tried and i am drawn to you like a flower turns to face the sun please tell me another joke, i'm in the mood for a little fun but i sit back and i can see me standing up to leave i don't mean nothing by it babe, i just need a little more time to grieve how could i say goodbye? how could i say goodbye? lord knows i tried
8.
action 04:09
you say you're fine you don't seem all right take my hand and come outside empty house lonely town there's nobody around won't you please take some action won't you please take some action oh my friend you live half dead live inside your head but we're alone in the streetlamp light i could marry you tonight won't you please take some action won't you please take some action won't you please? won't you please?

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released June 30, 2012

karl sturk - guitar, vocals, piano
patrice scinta - drums
thanks adam tao
thelongeye@gmail.com

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The Long Eye Brooklyn, New York

The Long Eye is Karl Sturk and Patrice Scinta. Karl plays the guitar and sings. Patrice plays the drums. They are from Brooklyn by way of Detroit.

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